Since its the very beginning of fall here in Anchorage and the summer's been rather cold and rainy (meaning there's little left in bloom), we decided to see if our honey was ready for harvest. On Sunday, Zach pulled some frames and I tried to cut the areas of capped honey off. For the most part, all went as we expected (other than we didn't have a lot of honey). You can see the darker comb to the left of where I'm cutting, that's dried out comb the bees built up and some parts are filled with bee pollen, which amazing enough seems stickier than honey. Once we finish the harvesting, I'll post a picture of the honey in a jar. I expect that we'll only get a couple of jars this year. Oh well, at least (a) the bees survived and (b) there was some honey.
